Flash 8: out of the box, oops and wows

The Studio 8 copy has been lying around in office for a few days now, Vaishali installed it on her laptop today. The out of the box experience was great. The first thing she noticed was better installation selection screen and even cleaner splash screens. She even tried the file upload procedure and was happy […]

Communication Workshops – Experiences and Learning

We carried out a series of workshops to improve communication skills of Magneteers recently. Many people had reservations about their public speaking abilities, some were not confident, some had a fear of English language and a few were weak in English grammar. I will be writing a series on this. The following are the 5 […]

Glancer – conference planner and friend finder app specs

I wrote briefly about the idea of developing a conference planner and friend finder app for Foss.In/2005. Here is the spec for that.

Where The Mind is Without Fear

Where The Mind is Without Fear From Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms […]

Cross platform application development

I wrote about cross platform interactive application development a while ago. There are ofcourse many more approaches, and I am talking about two of them here. wxWidgets is an open source library to create cross platform GUI’s. It’s in C++, but the Python binding – wxPython is quite popular. wxWidgets provides native UI – meaning […]